October 30, 2007
Best Horrors
Time lists their choices of the best 25 horror films. A pretty good list, if somewhat top-heavy in the newer gore-splattered films. They miss my favorite, the original filmed version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, known only as The Haunting.
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I'm talking about the original one here. Black-and-white. Almost no special effects, unless you count some nice camera angles and such. No blood. No gore. No visible monsters. Nothing that litters today's horror films.
But I dare you to watch this movie. At night. Alone. In a storm. I dare you. I double-dog-dare you!
Just don't bother with the utterly insipid remake. Please.
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I agree. That is by far the most frightening movie I've ever seen. The very absence of SFX or gore or monsters is, I think, part of its terror. With slasher movies you know that there's no crazed killer in the closet, but with The Haunting, you feel it could happen to you!
Posted by: Dave Trowbridge at October 30, 2007 11:06 PM (qLMZN)
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